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Ryan Henry

Education

M.S. in aeronautical systems, University of West Florida; M.S. in systems management, M.A. in public policy, University of Southern California; B.S. in environmental science and policy, U.S. Naval Academy

Overview

Ryan Henry is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation. From 2003 to 2008, he served as principal deputy under secretary of defense for Policy. He twice received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest civilian award within the U.S. Department of Defense, for his accomplishments. Henry was also a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; the information systems architect (and earlier a program manager) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and, as a Navy officer, an experimental test pilot and commander in combat, serving in both Operation Desert Storm and Vietnam.

Publications

This report is intended to help decisionmakers who would like to design and run a 360° Game, which can be used in multidimensional analysis of complex problems and allows participants to investigate a problem from a variety of perspectives.

RAND conducted two discovery games to explore possible solutions for improving cybersecurity, assess their implications, and develop an initial framework to support debate and inform decisions regarding cybersecurity policies and practices.

Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the munitions mix challenge, to demonstrate how RDM could help defense planners make plans more robust to a wide range of hard-to-predict futures.

Exploring the elements of a national strategy for U.S. foreign policy, the book examines critical global, regional, and other policy issues and decisions likely to confront the next president and senior U.S. officials in 2017 and beyond.

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